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Q&A Fantasyfestival 2023 in Esbjerg/Denmark
magnuskn:
--- Quote from: g33k on September 22, 2023, 12:46:15 PM ---Was Bradley at the site of the shooting?
I thought he was with the kids.
I need to re-read BG!
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Apparently he was away, as vincentric pointed out. My bad, I misremembered that (it's been a few year). However, he still promised Harry that Rudolph would be brought to justice, because he saw Murphy's corpse before she was yoinked to Valhalla. Honestly, Rudolph is more secure being imprisoned than if he'd skate on a technicality, because Harry would not let that go. I guess we'll see in Twelve Months.
--- Quote from: Mira on September 22, 2023, 02:24:50 PM --- But that becomes a "roll your eyes" problem, I know that is difficult for her devoted fans, but there it is. It was beginning to become a problem for the story, Murphy, yes, good at hand to hand combat, but as she gets older and injured still takes down just about everyone? Suddenly she all the wisdom of the world? I could go on, but that was the problem, she stopped being realistic, it was more give me a break... That's why Jim had to kill her off, and if she is brought back too soon, what's new there? Other than as one of Odin's fighters she does what she always did? Her fans will love that I know and respect that, but in my opinion it hurts the story.
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Yeah, well, you're a known "not fan" of her, therefore I have to politely point out that your opinion is therefore also quite biased. Personally, I'd rather see her brought back rather sooner than later, but even then it will probably be only after Mirror Mirror, i.e. in three books at the soonest. Which seems plenty time to me, especially with Jims writing rythm still not being what it was (and the books getting longer and longer as well).
That she will return is now a certainty for me and Jims comment to my question in the Q&A indicated to me that it won't be without Murphy herself working on it from her side, which indicates it won't be just before or during the BAT. That may be optimistic expectations on my side, but Jim put up the barriers around Harry to prevent him from entering any serious romance (i.e. magic chastity belt for Molly, Lara being a dead fish romantically) for the time being.
LaraBeck:
It is not Bradley who says Rudolph will pay, it is Butters.
--- Quote from: magnuskn on September 24, 2023, 06:34:29 PM ---Yeah, well, you're a known "not fan" of her, therefore I have to politely point out that your opinion is therefore also quite biased. Personally, I'd rather see her brought back rather sooner than later, but even then it will probably be only after Mirror Mirror, i.e. in three books at the soonest. Which seems plenty time to me, especially with Jims writing rythm still not being what it was (and the books getting longer and longer as well).
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I have to strongly agree with everything said here.
Now about this:
--- Quote from: magnuskn on September 24, 2023, 06:34:29 PM ---That she will return is now a certainty for me and Jims comment to my question in the Q&A indicated to me that it won't be without Murphy herself working on it from her side, which indicates it won't be just before or during the BAT. That may be optimistic expectations on my side, but Jim put up the barriers around Harry to prevent him from entering any serious romance (i.e. magic chastity belt for Molly, Lara being a dead fish romantically) for the time being.
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I'm not certain Murph will be back, the way Jim has been writing things lately, but I confess I lost a lot of faith in him after PT/BG. But if she does, and I want to believe his answer to your question does merit to have at least some optimism, I don't think we'll need to wait until the BAT either, it'll happen before.
magnuskn:
--- Quote from: LaraBeck on September 24, 2023, 08:05:46 PM ---It is not Bradley who says Rudolph will pay, it is Butters.
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Damn, I really should look up things in the book before fishing it out of my, ever more faulty, memory banks. Anyway, we'll see how it goes in the next book. It'd be inconceivable that Jim would not address this in some way.
Mira:
--- Quote ---I'm not certain Murph will be back, the way Jim has been writing things lately, but I confess I lost a lot of faith in him after PT/BG. But if she does, and I want to believe his answer to your question does merit to have at least some optimism, I don't think we'll need to wait until the BAT either, it'll happen before.
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As the old proverb says, "be careful for what you wish for, you may get it!" If she does come back, you can bet it is only to make Harry suffer more..
magnuskn:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 25, 2023, 04:29:58 AM --- As the old proverb says, "be careful for what you wish for, you may get it!" If she does come back, you can bet it is only to make Harry suffer more..
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Everything is designed to make Harry (and through him, us) suffer more. As Jim said in the Q&A, he doesn't get to torture the readers, so he does it to Harry. ;D
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